[pmwiki-users] Can't edit with monobook skin

Comit sam at usamedia.tv
Tue Feb 14 13:33:11 CST 2006


Turns out my site.editform vanished (or wasn't needed before??).  I replaced 
it with a fresh copy and alls well again.  Thanks :D

- Com

"Bronwyn Boltwood" <bronwyn at bronwynb.info> wrote in message 
news:78455dc20602141017i57762762ic75b4857565b046f at mail.gmail.com...
> On 2/12/06, Comit <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote:
>> Going through the CSS file here's the only part that looks like it's 
>> related
>> to the editting page, which I've never modified yet:
>
> Try commenting it out by surrounding it with /* */ -- as in
> /*
> comment
> */
>
>> "Comit" <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote in message
>> news:dsmglh$sap$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>> >I just installed the monobook skin and customed the color theme.  I love
>> >it. Just one problem - I can't edit pages anymore. I just get a blank 
>> >page,
>> >no edit fields or anything.  Even if I manually type the edit action
>> >command into the url. It works fine with other skins, however. Any idea 
>> >how
>> >I can fix this?
>
> Have you tested it with the default skin?  I ask because the edit form
> is controlled by Site.EditForm.  So if Site.EditForm is the source of
> the problem, something should be wrong no matter what skin you have.
> To find out, you should:
>
> 1. Test it with the default skin.  Does it work?  Then it's probably
> the skin rather than the editform template.  If there's problems with
> the default skin, then go on.
> 2. Redownload the zip of your version of PmWiki and extract a fresh
> copy of Site.EditForm and put in wikilib.d where it belongs.  Now you
> should have a good virgin copy of Site.EditForm in wikilib.d.
> 3. If there's a Site.EditForm in wiki.d, rename it to something like
> Site.EditForm.bad.  That will force PmWiki to use the version in
> wikilib.d.
> 4. Test again.  Hopefully it works now.  If it doesn't, it's time to
> go through your config.php with a fine-tooth comb, commenting out all
> cookbook recipes for a start.
>
> Test with some other skins -- preferably actively maintained ones that
> don't mess about with the editform at all-- and see if they have the
> same problem.
>
>> > Also, is the sidebar per-group with this skin? Seems to be..was 
>> > wondering
>> > if I could just retain the site-wide sidebar, if possible.
>
> If there's a group sidebar, it uses it.  Otherwise, it falls back to
> the sitewide sidebar.  Same principle goes for wherever else the skin
> includes a wikipage.  So there's two ways to handle it:
>
> 1. Delete all group sidebars.
> 2. in the tmpl file, change the line
>          <!--wiki:$Group.SideBar $SiteGroup.SideBar-->
> to
>          <!--wiki:$SiteGroup.SideBar-->
>
> Bronwyn 







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